Street Vibrations, the 4th largest motorcycle rally took place in Reno, NV this past weekend. Since I couldn’t attend the majority of the rally, I decided to make the most of the trip I could make and ride through Amador county and through the Sierra’s, taking my time and advantage of the beautiful roads in the area.
I left early Saturday morning to give myself enough time to make it and still be able to take a nap before partying it up with my friends that night.
The first leg of my trip was pretty boring – riding Highway 880 and 580 East to get out of the Bay Area. Once I made it to Stockton, the fun started.
I decided to take Highway 88 to 124 towards Ione. Once in Plymouth, where there was unexpected construction, I veered right when I should’ve gone left, and got lost somewhere on a twisty two lane road in Fiddletown. I decided to keep following the road, and for about 30 miles I unexpectedly made it back south to Volcano.
Luckily I have visited Volcano before, so I knew Highway 88 was around the corner. So I gassed up and decided to take 88 towards Tahoe instead. It was SUCH a beautiful route that I would recommend everyone take 88 instead of 80. Aside from it being longer and twistier, you ride through redwoods, elevations up to 8000 ft. and feel like you’re riding on top of the clouds at some points.
Once in Tahoe, I had breakfast at Heidi’s Pancake House and took a break on the Tahoe shore.
I eventually made my way up to Reno by taking 50/395.
It’s still not too cold to ride through Tahoe/Reno, but definitely wear layers. I visited Tahoe last year near Halloween, and there was significant snow on the mountains, but we didn’t require chains on my ur car tires. I don’t think I’ll be visiting Tahoe/Reno again this year, but I’m glad I rode up the twisty way on Saturday.
I rode back down through 50 into Placerville on Sunday and would recommend that route as well. Basically just don’t ride through 80 – it’s boring and there’s traffic.
Oh and I finally hit my 15,000 mile goal after the trip was over!
-Kim
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